Coming afloat

My dad emits cruelty

after acting out quite mean

one dark and twisted eve

while we were a young traveling family

✞

I won’t bore you with the gore since

there’s two therapists already onboard

but I haven’t been as creative since

so I hope to soon snap out of it

because I miss writing poetry

as well as innocence

laughter

and feeling

now only disappearing

~

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